Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2403. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA. Catherine II, “the Great”. 1762-1792. Æ 5 Kopecks (50.08 g, 12h). Kolyvan mint. Dated 1795. Crowned script IE II monogram, 17-95 across fields; all within crossed laurel and palm branches; oblique reeding on edge / Crowned double-headed imperial Russian eagle facing with wings displayed, coat-of-arms on breast, holding sceptre and globus cruciger, crown above; “Five Kopecks” in Russian on banner below. Bitikin 812; Brekke 305. EF, brown surfaces, small die breaks on obverse, struck with slightly rusted dies.